Halloween is around the corner and your friends and you try to plan a group costume theme. What should you be? A crayon, a lumberjack, a nerd, a nurse, a pirate, or a bee? So many things to choose from. You guys decide on a nurse, a sexy nurse; a very short and tight low cut dress with a small nurse hat. Is this really how nurses dress? of course not.
Media and society and all the other factors around us affect our view towards what we think is socially correct to wear. In class, we took a look at guy cotumes compared to girl costumes. The girl costumes were more fitted and short, meant to be provacative, where as guy costumes were full body covered costumes. I never realized how different men and women costumes were until I actually looked for the difference. Even though some girl costumes are over the top and above sexy, the reason I thnk that I have never realized the difference between costumes is because it's part of our norm or society and we are used to seeing all these types of costumes.
However, the observation that surpised me the most was how little kid costumes are changing as well, slowly reflecting the women costumes. This shows how our culture and society are urging kids to grow up fast and puts them in a mind set that they should dress like an adult. After all, adults are role models to kids, they are the people whom they look up to and want to be. Not only do adults affect children drastically, media is the biggest factor that i think causes this reaction from kids. The feeling of being cool and attractive by wearing a costume are reasons why the way a costume should look is changing.
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